Curriculum Development in Nursing Education

Iwasiw, Carroll L., RN; Goldenberg, Dolly, RN, Ph.D.

ISBN 10: 1284026264 / ISBN 13: 9781284026269

Published by Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2014

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Synopsis:

Curriculum Development in Nursing Education, Third Edition provides nursing students with the theory and practical ideas necessary to develop an evidence-based, context-relevant, unified curriculum. Throughout the text the authors guide students to develop this type of curriculum with an emphasis on a concept-based curriculum. The Third Edition also emphasizes the importance of a conceptually and visually unified curriculum and offers ideas on how to achieve this throughout the text. The Third Edition focuses on the concepts of faculty development, ongoing appraisal, and scholarship which are new to nursing education literature. This text includes a chapter dedicated to each of these concepts: curriculum development, implementation, and evaluation as well as concrete examples around how to execute them. New content also addresses development, implementation, and evaluation of a curriculum offered via distance learning. New to the Third Edition:•Continued emphasis on the development of evidence-informed, context-relevant, and unified nursing curriculums •New sections on designing a concept-based curriculum and concept-based courses•Exploration of new ideas around readiness for curriculum implementation including fidelity of implementation•Expanded section on distance learning in nursing education featuring ideas around exemplary teachingKey Features:• Specific examples around the development of an evidence-based curriculum• In-depth coverage of the role of faculty development, ongoing appraisal, and scholarship as core processes of curriculum work• Instruction for how to design concept based courses• Brain-based learning

About the Authors: Dr. Carroll Iwasiw is the former director of the Western University Ontario School of Nursing and oversaw the introduction of a university-college collaborative BScN program. She led the development of a nursing management curriculum in Russia in 1995-1998 and the first BScN curriculum in Rwanda in 2005-09. Dr. Iwasiw has chaired the Council of Ontario University Programs in Nursing and is chair of the Canadian Association of Schools of Nursing Accreditation Bureau. She is a recipient of a teaching excellence award from the Ontario Council of University Faculty Associations and has been named a World Expert in Nursing Education by the World Health Organization.

Dr. Dolly Goldenberg is the former Chair of Graduate Programs in Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, Western University'Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada. She is the author and co-author of numerous peer-reviewed articles on nursing education, curriculum, evaluation, and nursing administration, as well as a reviewer for several peer-reviewed nursing journals. Currently, she is a co-founding editor of the on-line International Journal of Nursing Education Scholarship. Dr. Goldenberg has served as a mentor and co-investigator for graduate nursing students with their research, and particpated in assessments of nursing faculty applicants for Research Grants to the Social Sciences and Humanities Council of Canada. She was a co-investigator for the Ontario Ministry of Colleges and Universities' Articulation Study, which led to Ontario's university-college collaborative baccalaureate nursing programs. Dr. Goldenberg received the Excellence in Nursing Education Award from Iota Omicron Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau for her achievements in teaching, curriculum development, and evaluation. She has been active in nursing program evaluation, and consults about program development, revision, as well as accreditation.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Curriculum Development in Nursing Education
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
Publication Date: 2014
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: As New
Edition: 3rd Edition